1/ got 16 acceptances in march, and 15 in april by print and online journals, including onion river rev, touchstone mag, writing from below, litbreak mag, spillway, (last issue of) zoomoozophone rev, rootstalk;
2/ my chinese poem 'first love' (初恋）was selected as one of the 20 semi-finalist by the judges in new york during 'the 2019 flushing poetry festival,' but eventually failed to win any prize on april 20;
3/ all set to release the 2019 spring issue of Poetry Pacific as scheduled on 5 may. wondering why so much content, including 'disclaimer', 'guidelines', editors' profiles, and names of hundreds of related magazines, is all gone from the right side of the main page. tried to recover it, but technically incapable of this;
4/ after permanently closing my sites 'happy yangsheng' intended for the benefit of potential readers, i am very hesitant these days about whether to change it or not into 'towards happiness' or simply 'fulfilment' just to record how i have been trying to attain happiness despite my strong pessimistic and cynical tendencies i was born with. while i am not sure if i can commit myself to this literary project, it's clear to me that i should be concerned only with my private and internal life, since i have lost touch with the day when crapshit has become unimaginably much more popular than blood-stained words coughed out by writers me;
